3 Quotes by Joseph Dumit

Because doctors can’t name the illness, everyone—the patient's family, friends, health insurance, and in many cases the patient—comes to think of the patient as not really sick and not really suffering. What the patient comes to require in these circumstances, in the absence of help, are facts—tests and studies that show that they might “in fact” have something.

Never think you speak for all of yourself.

Because doctors can’t name the illness, everyone – the patient’s family, friends, health insurance, and in many cases the patient – comes to think of the patient as not really sick and not really suffering. What the patient comes to require in these circumstances, in the absence of help, are facts – tests and studies that show that they might “in fact” have something.